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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 9
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How the law of election (foreordination) operates—Israel chosen (foreordained) to receive the adoption, the covenants, the promises, and the blessings of the gospel; yet they are not all Israel, which are of Israel—They must seek their blessings by faith—The Gentiles also attain to righteousness and salvation by faith.
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I say</span> the truth in Christ, I <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Tim. 2: 7.">lie</a> not, my <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Conscience.">conscience</a> also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/3a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Rom. 9: 3 (For once I could have wished that myself were accursed from Christ,)  . . .">For</a> I could wish that myself were <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 32.">accursed</a> from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Who are Israelites; to whom <i>pertaineth</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Election; TG Sons and Daughters of God.">adoption</a>, and the glory, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Abrahamic Covenant.">covenants</a>, and the giving of the law, and the service <i>of God,</i> and the promises;
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Whose <i>are</i> the fathers, and of whom as concerning the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Condescension of.">flesh</a> Christ <i>came,</i> who is over all, God blessed for ever.  Amen.
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Not as though the word of God <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR has been fruitless, ineffectual.">hath</a> taken none effect.  For they <i>are</i> not all Israel, which are of <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 30: 2.">Israel</a>:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/7a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Rom. 9: 7 Neither, because they are all children of Abraham, are they the seed; but, In Isaac  . . .">Neither</a>, because they are the seed of Abraham, <i>are they</i> all children: but, In <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">Isaac</a> shall thy seed be called.
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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these <i>are</i> not the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sons and Daughters of God.">children</a> of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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For this <i>is</i> the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Seed of Abraham.">son</a>.
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And not only <i>this;</i> but when <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 23.">Rebecca</a> also had conceived by one, <i>even</i> by our father Isaac;
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(For <i>the children</i> being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Foreordination; TG God, Foreknowledge of.">election</a> might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
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It was said unto her, The <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 25: 23.">elder</a> shall serve the younger.
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As it is written, Jacob have I <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 1: 2 (2-3).">loved</a>, but Esau have I hated.
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What shall we say then?  <i>Is there</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ps. 92: 15; TG God, Perfection of.">unrighteousness</a> with God?  <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR May it not be!.">God</a> forbid.
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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Compassion.">compassion</a> on whom I will have compassion.
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So then <i>it is</i> not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Mercy of.">mercy</a>.
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 9: 16 (15-17).">purpose</a> have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
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Therefore hath he <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness.">mercy</a> on whom he will <i>have mercy,</i> and whom he will he <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/18b" mark="b" type="Q" title="GR leaves to stubbornness, hardness; Deut. 2: 30.">hardeneth</a>.
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?  For who hath resisted his will?
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR contradictest, disputest.">repliest</a> against God?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed <i>it,</i> Why hast thou <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 9: 12.">made</a> me thus?
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Hath not the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 9; Jer. 18: 6.">potter</a> power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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<i>What</i> if God, willing to shew <i>his</i> wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Pet. 2: 8 (4-8).">destruction</a>:
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And that he might make known the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">riches</a> of his <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Celestial Glory; TG God, Glory of.">glory</a> on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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As he saith also in <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/25a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Hosea.">Osee</a>, I will call them my people, which were not my <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 23; Zech. 13: 9.">people</a>; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
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And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> in the place where it was said unto them, Ye <i>are</i> not my people; there shall they be called the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/26a" mark="a" type="R" title="GR sons; TG Sons and Daughters of God.">children</a> of the living God.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/27a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Isaiah.">Esaias</a> also crieth concerning Israel, Though the <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 22.">number</a> of the children of <sup>c</sup><a href="rom/9/27c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Blessings of.">Israel</a> be as the sand of the sea, a <sup>d</sup><a href="rom/9/27d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a> shall be saved:
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For he will finish the work, and cut <i>it</i> short in <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 52: 11.">righteousness</a>: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
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And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/29a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB hosts.">Sabaoth</a> had left us a <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/29b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR posterity.">seed</a>, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
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What shall we say then?  That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a> which is of faith.
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">Israel</a>, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/32a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR Why.">Wherefore</a>?  Because <i>they sought it</i> not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.  For they <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/32b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 8: 14 (13-15); Matt. 21: 44 (43-45); Luke 2: 34.">stumbled</a> at that stumblingstone;
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As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a <sup>a</sup><a href="rom/9/33a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cornerstone; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">stumblingstone</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="rom/9/33b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Rock.">rock</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="rom/9/33c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Offenses.">offence</a>: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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